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全球最差！加拿大在这些排名中居然垫底！
【加拿大都市网】经常在网上冲浪的人可能会看到这张由专栏作家Stephen Lautens编辑的图表，它汇集了11个国际指数的榜单，显然加拿大名列前茅。“加拿大真的不行了吗？我不这么想。世界也这么想。”标题写道。
当然，这仅仅说明了部分事实。虽然加拿大可能在“生活质量”和“和平”等抽象指数中占主导地位，但在许多实证指标中，加拿大在发达国家中被列为最差的国家之一。
加拿大有很多让人喜欢的地方，但下面是一个并不全面的清单，列出了加拿大确实非常糟糕的方面。
在经合组织（OECD）中加拿大的房价是最贵的
经合组织（OECD）本质上是一个由全球38个最发达国家组成的俱乐部。这38个国家在房价的承受程度上，加拿大显然是冠军（最差的）。
经合组织(OECD)的分析师通过比较平均房价和平均收入来对可承受性进行排名，根据他们最新的季度排名，加拿大的工资与住房成本是最不相符的国家中排名第一。
加拿大拥有世界上最昂贵的无线网费用
芬兰电信分析师Rewheel每年都会对全球无线网服务最贵的国家进行排名。去年，加拿大再次占据榜首。
从多个指标来看，加拿大是世界上移动数据成本最高的地方。分析人士发现，平均每个加拿大人要花费至少相当于100欧元的费用，才能获得一个包含至少100g移动数据的手机套餐。在欧盟大部分地区，这种手机套餐的价格不到40欧元。
急症护理床位比例最低
加拿大的卫生系统受到新冠的打击尤其严重，因为大多数医院即使在繁荣时期也处于崩溃边缘。
在大流行期间，各省急诊室被迫关闭。加拿大健康信息研究所(Canadian Institute for Health Information)的一项排名为我们提供了一个线索。
当与其他国家进行比较时，加拿大的人均急症病床数量排在最后，尽管与瑞典持平。加拿大每1000人中有2个急诊床位，而法国是3.1个，德国是6个。
拥有全球“房地产泡沫”最严重的两个城市
至少15年来，加拿大一直是过热房地产市场排名的常客。瑞银(UBS)最新发布的全球房地产市场“泡沫”城市指数也不例外。
在2021年的指数中，多伦多的泡沫风险仅次于法兰克福，温哥华排在第6位。除了德国，加拿大是唯一一个有两个城市进入前十名的国家。
背负新冠肺炎债务的速度比任何国家都快
新冠肺炎疫情带来了人类文明史上最严重的全球债务积累。在国际债务危机中，加拿大仍然比其他国家负债更多。
去年，彭博社的分析师追踪了每个国家在新冠大流行的第一年里积累的公共和私人债务的速度。加拿大的总债务负担相当于GDP的352%。
虽然有少数国家(日本、法国和香港)在疫情结束后的总债务负担更高，但就债务积累的速度而言，加拿大的排名高于所有国家。
温哥华港(几乎)是世界上效率最低的港口
去年，就在全球供应链危机爆发之际，世界银行决定对全球370个主要港口的表现进行排名。
作者考虑了港口让船只等待的时间，以及船员卸货所需的时间等因素。当所有因素加在一起时，温哥华港在370个港口中排名368。得分较低的只有洛杉矶港和长滩港。
多伦多皮尔逊机场是世界上延误最严重的机场
航班延误是另一个让整个世界都感到头疼的问题。然而，加拿大仍然超过了所有这些国家。上个月，CNN利用FlightAware网站的数据，找出了航班延误率最高的机场。
排名第一的是多伦多皮尔逊机场(Toronto Pearson)， 52%的离港航班出现了某种程度的延误。而且遥遥领先！
排名第二的法兰克福航班延误率仅为45.4%。多伦多也是航班取消排名的一个有力竞争者。多伦多6.9%的定期航班从未起飞，在全球最差机场中排名第四。
世界上外国投资最差的经济体之一
卡尔加里大学(University of Calgary) 2020年的一项研究跟踪了2015年至2019年期间流入发达国家的外国投资。
在此期间，榜单上几乎所有国家的外国现金都出现了激增。爱尔兰名列榜首，得益于其外国投资增长逾115%。实际上只有四个国家的外国投资出现了下降:墨西哥、巴西、澳大利亚和加拿大。
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加拿大商业委员会(Business Council of Canada)的一份报告也注意到了同样的趋势。报告总结道:“加拿大对外国直接投资的开放程度在经合组织中排名第二。”
我们开的是世界上最费油的车
2019年，国际能源署(International Energy Agency)调查了全球私人汽车车队的燃油经济性。几乎在每一项指标上，加拿大都在驾驶不必要的巨大、耗油的车辆方面走在了前列。
每行驶一公里，加拿大人平均消耗更多的燃料，排放更多的二氧化碳。加拿大的汽车也是最大和最重的(仅次于美国)。虽然我们可以很方便地把这归咎于加拿大是一个地广人稀、寒冷的国家，有很多重工业，但我们的排名远远超过了许多其他有类似情况的国家。你怎么看？
'Worst in the world': Here are all the rankings in which Canada is now last
Most unaffordable housing, highest cellphone bills and worst rate of acute care beds, to name a few
If you spend any time on social media, it’s likely that you’ve seen this graphic compiled by columnist Stephen Lautens that assembles 11 international indices which feature Canada near the top spot. “Canada is broken? I don’t think so. Neither does the world,” reads a caption.
Naturally, it only tells a partial picture. While Canada may dominate abstract indices such as “quality of life” and “peace,” there are plenty of far more empirical indicators in which we measurably rank as among the worst in the developed world.
There’s plenty to like about Canada, but below is a not-at-all comprehensive list of all the ways in which we are indeed very broken.
We have the most unaffordable housing in the OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is essentially a club of the world’s 38 most developed countries. And when these 38 are ranked against each other for housing unaffordability, Canada emerges as the clear champion. OECD analysts rank affordability by comparing average home prices to average incomes, and according to their latest quarterly rankings Canada was No. 1 for salaries that were most out of whack with the cost of a home.
Housing by price to income ratio for the second quarter of 2022. That’s Canada on the extreme right. PHOTO BY OECD
We have the world’s most expensive wireless costs
Every year, the Finnish telecom analyst Rewheel ranks the world’s most expensive countries for wireless services. And last year, Canada once again dominated. Across several metrics, Canada was found to be the most expensive place in the world for mobile data. Analysts found that it would cost the average Canadian the equivalent of at least 100 Euros to obtain a cell phone plan with at least 100 gigabytes of mobile data. Across much of the EU, that kind of cell phone plan could be had for less than 40 Euros.
Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile data as companies in France or Ireland. PHOTO BY REWHEEL
We have the lowest rate of acute care beds among peer countries
Canada’s health system was particularly walloped by COVID-19 due to the simple fact that most of our hospitals are at the breaking point even in good times. Multiple times during the pandemic, provinces were forced into shutdown by rates of COVID that had barely been noticed in better-prepared countries. A ranking by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides one clue as to why. When ranked against peer countries, Canada’s rate of per-capita acute care beds was in last place, albeit tied with Sweden. Canada has two acute care beds for every 1,000 people, against 3.1 in France and six in Germany.
Two of the planet’s “bubbliest” real estate markets are in Canada
For at least 15 years now, Canada has been a regular contender on rankings of overheated housing markets. And the latest UBS index of world cities with “bubbly” real estate markets is no exception. In their 2021 index, Toronto was second only to Frankfurt in terms of bubble risk, while Vancouver ranked sixth. Aside from Germany, Canada was the only country that saw two of its cities in the top ten.
Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely “bubble risks,” and they’re both in Canada. PHOTO BY UBS GLOBAL REAL ESTATE BUBBLE INDEX 2021
We racked up COVID debt faster than anyone else
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the most feverish global accumulation of debt in the history of human civilization. So it’s rather remarkable that amidst this international monsoon of debt, Canada still managed to out-debt everyone else. Last year, analysts at Bloomberg tracked each country’s rate of public and private debt accumulated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada came in with an overall debt burden equivalent to 352 per cent of GDP. While a handful of countries (Japan, France and Hong Kong) came out of the pandemic with higher overall debt burdens, Canada outranked all of them when it came to how quickly that debt had been accumulated.
Containers on rail cars waiting to be shipped east by rail at the Port of Vancouver Tuesday, June 21, 2022. PHOTO BY (PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE/ PNG)
The Port of Vancouver is (almost) the most inefficient in the world
Last year — just as the global supply chain crisis got going — the World Bank decided to rank the performance of the world’s 370 major ports. Authors weighed factors such as how long the ports kept ships waiting, and how long crews took to unload a vessel. And when everything was added together, the Port of Vancouver ranked 368 out of 370. The only places with worse scores were the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. And it’s not like our other ports are much better. If Vancouver is too gummed up, you can always sail north to Prince Rupert, which ranks 339 out of 370.
Take that, Los Angeles and Long Beach. PHOTO BY WORLD BANK GROUP
Queues at Toronto Pearson International Airport. PHOTO BY PETER J. THOMPSON/NATIONAL POST
Toronto Pearson is the world’s most-delayed airport
Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is feeling the pinch. And yet, Canada still managed to outdo all of them. Last month, CNN used data from the website FlightAware to figure out which airports were seeing the highest rates of flight delays. In the number one spot was Toronto Pearson, with 52 per cent of all flights out of the airport experiencing some kind of delay. And it was a commanding lead; the second-place finisher, Frankfurt, only managed to see 45.4 per cent of its flights delayed. Toronto was also a contender in flight cancellations; with 6.9 per cent of its scheduled flights never getting off the ground, it ranked fourth worst in the world.
We’re one of the world’s worst economies for foreign investment
A 2020 study out of the University of Calgary tracked foreign investment flows into a cross-section of developed countries between 2015 and 2019. Virtually every country on the list saw a surge in foreign cash during that period; Ireland topped out the ranking thanks to its foreign investment climbing by more than 115 per cent. Only four countries actually saw a reduction in foreign investment: Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada. A report by the Business Council of Canada noticed the same trend. “Canada is the second-worst in the OECD on openness to foreign direct investment,” it concluded.
That’s Canada to the left. PHOTO BY UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY PUBLICATIONS
We drive the most fuel-inefficient vehicles in the world
In 2019, the International Energy Agency examined the fuel economy of the world’s private car fleets. On almost every measure, Canada led the pack in driving unnecessarily huge, gas-guzzling vehicles. Per kilometre driven, the average Canadian burned more fuel and emitted more carbon dioxide than anyone else. Canadian cars were also the largest and (second only to the U.S.) the heaviest. While it would be convenient to blame this on Canada being a sparse, cold country with lots of heavy industry, our ranking was well beyond plenty of other countries where that was similarly the case.
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